There was and is now great difference of opinion as to the details, but the vital promise made to the note holder to make his note as good as gold in January, 1879, was concurred in by a large majority of both Houses, and by many who opposed the bill as too slow in its operation.
Sherman reflects on the consensus among lawmakers regarding the promise to make notes equivalent to gold.
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Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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